Internet2: Chief Innovation Officer wanted

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	Internet2: Chief Innovation Officer wanted Internet2 is looking for a Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) to join its executive leadership team, and has assembled a panel of higher education and corporate leaders to search for one. Internet2 operates a high-speed network across the United States over which higher education and research institutions collaborate. The CINO would be tasked with leading new initiatives in areas such as advanced networking infrastructure, cloud computing and identity management. RELATED: Big-data science requires SDN, Internet2 chief saysTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More In this Issue Cisco, others pushing 2.5G, 5G Ethernet FCC eyes new rules to protect consumers as voice networks transition to IP Facebook sets up shop on the Tor anonymity network Ruckus hopes to raise a rumpus in the small-business Wi-Fi market Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge IDC: Public Cloud to be $127B industry by 2018 WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More Cisco, others pushing 2.5G, 5G Ethernet Companies look to fill gap between 1G and 10G on existing copper Read More FCC eyes new rules to protect consumers as voice networks transition to IP An agency proposal would require incumbent carriers to share last-mile networks with competitors Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More Facebook sets up shop on the Tor anonymity network Facebook has made its site directly available on Tor to prevent access problems for people using the anonymity network and to provide an alternative method of accessing the social network securely.People who have a Tor-enabled browser will be able to access Facebook via https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/, Facebook software engineer Alec Muffett said in a post to the social network on Friday.Tor, short for The Onion Router, is software designed to offer users better privacy when browsing the Internet. It routes traffic through a network of worldwide servers in order to mask the user’s location. The system is widely used by people who don’t want to reveal their real IP address while browsing and it is also used by people to access services that are blocked by governments in some countries.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Ruckus hopes to raise a rumpus in the small-business Wi-Fi market Already a major player in the SMB networking space, Ruckus now wants to grab a slice of the small office/home office pie. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge Microsoft wants to move monitoring and analytics to the cloud, automate management and take over high- performance computing work with its latest Azure products.That Microsoft wants to make the most of its strong position in enterprise data centers, hoping to move customers to Azure, became even more apparent at the TechEd Europe conference in Barcelona Tuesday.The company announced Azure Operational Insights, which extends the Azure hosted analytics, monitoring and management tools to on-premises equipment, simply by installing an agent on servers. It’s possible to find missing system updates, capacity shortages and track server configuration changes, for example.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More IDC: Public Cloud to be $127B industry by 2018 Research firm IDC’s latest estimate pegs the public IT cloud market at $56.6 billion this year, and it’s expected to grow to a $127 billion within four years.The public cloud computing market is still in the early stages of adoption, with rapid growth forecasted for the upcoming years. IDC predicts the cloud market to grow at a compound annual rate of 22.8% each year, which is six times faster than the growth in the overall IT market. By 2018, IDC expects that cloud spending will account for half of software, server and storage spending growth.+MORE AT CLOUD CHRONICLES: How much bigger is Amazon’s cloud vs. Microsoft and Google? The answer is surprisingly large... +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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